You Were Wrong Theme #1: Wealth, featuring the author’s friend Marc Scharf
Music by The Fiery Furnaces
Camera: Adam Simon
I am grateful to The Fiery Furnaces for allowing me to include the song “Wicker Whatnots,” from their album Widow City, in this video. The song asks, “How do you arrange a room around a baby grand piano?”—a difficult question for which my friend the fiction author Matthew Sharpe tried to offer a satisfactory answer in his novel You Were Wrong. Another correspondence between The Fiery Furnaces and his book is that the founders of the band, siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger, are from Long Island, New York, where the book is set. They grew up in Mattituck, Patchogue, Quogue, and Ronkonkoma, and now reside in Long Island’s Brooklyn. You may find out more about this remarkable and continually surprising band here at the The Fiery Furnaces website. —Marc Scharf
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You Were Wrong Theme #2: The Law, featuring professional video artist Marc Scharf
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You Were Wrong Theme #3: The Suburbs. Scharf errs.
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You Were Wrong Theme #4: Nature, a tribute to Werner Herzog
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You Were Wrong Theme #5: Death …out, brief candle.
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You Were Wrong Theme #6: The Sands of Time. Scharf in the shallows.
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You Were Wrong: Director’s Cut